“Fertility preservation is about preserving your future options so that you aren’t taking options away from your future self. In this complicated context, living a long distance from the fertility preservation clinic can become yet another barrier, and clinicians can help patients by strategizing with them about ways to overcome such logistical challenges.”—Timothy D. Gilligan, MD

For patients with cancer under-going gonadotoxic therapies who wish to undergo sperm banking, distance may have an impact on their decision for making the trek from their homes to the clinic according to a new retrospective study. Overall, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) found that distance seemed to play a role in whether or not men underwent fertility preservation (FP).

The study appears in JCO Oncology Practice (doi:10.1200/OP.22.00789).

中文翻译：

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距离会阻碍男性生育能力的保存吗？

“保留生育能力就是保留你未来的选择，这样你就不会剥夺未来的自己的选择。在这种复杂的背景下，远离生育力保存诊所可能会成为另一个障碍，临床医生可以与患者一起制定克服此类后勤挑战的策略，从而帮助患者。”——Timothy D. Gilligan，医学博士

根据一项新的回顾性研究，对于正在接受性腺毒性治疗且希望进行精子库的癌症患者来说，距离可能会影响他们从家中长途跋涉前往诊所的决定。总体而言，匹兹堡大学医学中心 (UPMC) 的研究人员发现，距离似乎在男性是否接受生育力保留 (FP) 方面发挥着重要作用。

该研究发表在JCO Oncology Practice (doi:10.1200/OP.22.00789) 中。